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You say that like it's news. We've known this from the beginning. -
Mind you I'm not going to be getting it. Now I finally have to opportunity to, I really don't want to spend a tenner a month to access Spotify on the go. I'd only end up listening to stuff I already have - and there's stuff I already have that I don't often listen to so I could just listen to that.
Plus it won't work in the background, rendering my iPhone useless on the tube except for music, which isn't the reason I have an iPhone. -
MrED209 wrote:
Plus it won't work in the background,
That's utterly mental. -
Judge-Fang wrote:
MrED209 wrote:
Plus it won't work in the background,
That's utterly mental.
Same as last.fm, or all radio apps. Apple doesn't allow apps to run in the background, as far as I know. -
UncleLou wrote:
Judge-Fang wrote:
That's utterly mental.
Same as last.fm, or all radio apps. Apple doesn't allow apps to run in the background, as far as I know.
Yeah, I know about the "no background apps" thing, but as an ex-WinMobile and Maemo user and as a current Symbian user it seems incredibly restrictive of Apple. The fact that the iPhone's battery life is so shockingly poor even *without* background apps beggars belief. -
MrED209 wrote:
Eh, nope, no I didn't.
You say that like it's news. We've known this from the beginning. -
Judge-Fang wrote:
UncleLou wrote:
Judge-Fang wrote:
That's utterly mental.
Same as last.fm, or all radio apps. Apple doesn't allow apps to run in the background, as far as I know.
Yeah, I know about the "no background apps" thing, but as an ex-WinMobile and Maemo user and as a current Symbian user it seems incredibly restrictive of Apple. The fact that the iPhone's battery life is so shockingly poor even *without* background apps beggars belief.
I am with you that it's too restrictive.
Re: battery life, I don't know. I dare say it's more an absolute technical barrier at the moment rather than anything else. If I use the iPhone like I use my old Sony-Ericsson mobile, the talk and standby times are pretty much the same, and things like full-screen video, internet surfing and whatnot eats batteries on all devices, no? -
Simple solution to the multi-tasking problem, release it on the N97 fuck apple over. Done. -
I don't think most of the N97 users would even know how to use it so that is probably why it's not there. -
Judge-Fang wrote:
*sigh*
UncleLou wrote:
Judge-Fang wrote:
That's utterly mental.
Same as last.fm, or all radio apps. Apple doesn't allow apps to run in the background, as far as I know.
Yeah, I know about the "no background apps" thing, but as an ex-WinMobile and Maemo user and as a current Symbian user it seems incredibly restrictive of Apple. The fact that the iPhone's battery life is so shockingly poor even *without* background apps beggars belief.
It isn't that poor. If you use it as a phone and do some email on it, it'll easily last you several days. It's only when you cane the net, the games, the phone, the email polling, the touchscreen in general, the music, the video playback etc etc for hours a day that it dies.
Background apps thing is only really annoying to me when it affects the music apps, especially this particular one that can cache songs. It's a shame Apple won't let music apps play their music in the background if the music has been cached, and just limit the app to active playback only when it's streaming directly from the web.
Although frankly I don't see why they don't just let all music apps that stream from the web run in the background at the users discretion. It would be really useful for radio apps. -
mowgli wrote:
Well it's not my fault you didn't read any of this thread or the Spotify blog or anything like that. We've all known for weeks!
MrED209 wrote:
Eh, nope, no I didn't.
You say that like it's news. We've known this from the beginning. -
mcmonkeyplc wrote:
I don't think Apple will cry into their cereal all that much if Spotify were to release it on the N97. They're already putting it on the Android. I just checked and Jobs hasn't committed suicide over that yet.
Simple solution to the multi-tasking problem, release it on the N97 fuck apple over. Done.
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MrED209 wrote:
And again I also knew for weeks and was only pointing out that the release of the app is pointless without some sort of freebie thrown in. Fuck me you really do try don't you.
mowgli wrote:
Well it's not my fault you didn't read any of this thread or the Spotify blog or anything like that. We've all known for weeks!
MrED209 wrote:
Eh, nope, no I didn't.
You say that like it's news. We've known this from the beginning. -
Oh, when you said "nope I didn't" you meant that you didn't say it like it was news. Well if you're not specific in your corrections I can't be blamed for getting the wrong idea.
I really do try. I really really do. You people aren't helping much.
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Spotify for £10 a month is good value with this app. The adverts go, the music is streamed at a higher quality too. I don't mind spending money if I get use out of it. I thought once you had cached the songs and played them they would disappear but they stay on the device for a maximum of 30 days. So you can keep listening to the songs on your playlist. -
MrED209 wrote:
mcmonkeyplc wrote:
I don't think Apple will cry into their cereal all that much if Spotify were to release it on the N97. They're already putting it on the Android. I just checked and Jobs hasn't committed suicide over that yet.
Simple solution to the multi-tasking problem, release it on the N97 fuck apple over. Done.
Well this is how they do it then. Release a "killer" app on other platforms with multitasking and then watch apple sit back and do nothing. Perhaps lose customers until they do something.
Ofcourse it has to be a killer app for this to happen. -
I take your point about a free trial. I'm certainly never going to pay to try it as I daresay I'll try it a couple of times and if I don't like it I'll be a tenner down for nothing. I know I said I would pay a tenner to try it for a month but now it's here I've weighed up how much I use my iPod on the move and what else I do when I'm using it and the fact is I play games on my iPhone, check my mail, read RSS feeds, have a look at Eurogamer, play with camera apps, etc etc.
ie, all stuff I won't be able to do while listening to Spotify. Therefore it's completely useless. -
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mcmonkeyplc wrote:
I think Spotify would be a major contender for killer app on the iPhone if a) it was half the price per month (I'd go for it as an impulse sub without a moment's thought - a tenner is too much if I don't use it for the rest of the month) and b) it was background compatible.
MrED209 wrote:
mcmonkeyplc wrote:
I don't think Apple will cry into their cereal all that much if Spotify were to release it on the N97. They're already putting it on the Android. I just checked and Jobs hasn't committed suicide over that yet.
Simple solution to the multi-tasking problem, release it on the N97 fuck apple over. Done.
Well this is how they do it then. Release a "killer" app on other platforms with multitasking and then watch apple sit back and do nothing. Perhaps lose customers until they do something.
Ofcourse it has to be a killer app for this to happen.
I hope that it really takes off on other platforms where it can be used in the background but even that won't really do any damage to Apple. There needs to be a consistently good operating system that works exactly like Apple's does but does all the things that Apple in their infinite arrogance decide we're not allowed to do, and it needs to implemented on a range of well designed, unified handsets, and then maybe Apple will take the competition seriously enough to actually fix these things.
That's never going to happen while you've got all these different companies making all these different phones, where no one operating system and handset can ever really break free and capture everyone's attention.
But I digress. -
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Arrogance is how Sony ended up in a mess with the PS3, MS with Vista. It will happen to apple too. -
Also cant they implement something like the tom tom app where it just starts up again after a call? -
mcmonkeyplc wrote:
Does it not do that? I thought that was standard in most apps, if not all. Could be wrong though, I've not often taken a call in the middle of using an app.
Also cant they implement something like the tom tom app where it just starts up again after a call?
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rutter 1,918 posts
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Registered 14 years agoYou could jailbreak and install backgrounder. That will allow you to run it in the background. -
MrED209 wrote:
mcmonkeyplc wrote:
Does it not do that? I thought that was standard in most apps, if not all. Could be wrong though, I've not often taken a call in the middle of using an app.
Also cant they implement something like the tom tom app where it just starts up again after a call?
Yup, that is the case! Just tested it while I had scramble running. So what the hell is the big deal with it not running in the background then? You cant do anything else apart from listen to music and receive calls? -
gamingdave 5,087 posts
Seen 3 days ago
Registered 17 years agoGot it and running it now. Sound quality is excellent, caching is great and it synched everything up as expected.
Incoming phone call stops it, then it goes straight back once hung up.
Im not that fussed about it running in the background, as I listen to music when walking about, or short burst of public transport. Would be a good bonus though, perhaps a jailbroken verison would be the way to go.
My only gripe is the headphones cant be used to skip tracks or pause, hopefully they will have an update for that. -
I've got a app on my android phone that saves youtube videos.
Thus I've got a (free) version of spotify in that really! (esp. as the music videos are back on youtube now..). -
gamingdave wrote:
Some jobsworth App Store reviewer will probably reject that on the basis it replicates iPod functionality, even though they let Spotify through in the first place.
My only gripe is the headphones cant be used to skip tracks or pause, hopefully they will have an update for that. -
Can you atleast change the volume with the headphones?
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